The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-05-28

| to work add q great number are idle
Mass meetings are being held by the
striking shipbuilders. and a great deal
of excitement prevails
ARMAGH.
On April 81, a man named Patrick
Rafferty,, aged 60 years, was found in an
clubhouse near Ready hanging By a rope
and quite dead. On the same day the
body of William McNeece, Of Barnteel,
Augl.nacloy, County Tyrone, was also
found in the canal at Hanslough, near
Middletown, in this county. It is stated
that when in the water a rope was
thrown to him and he refused to catch
it.
CORK.
Mr.. Timothy Murray has been elected
chairman of the Queenstown Town
Commission. ~
AT a meeting Of the Fermoy Board Of
Guardians, on April q, the resolution
calling on the schoolmaster to resign
his position was unanimously rescinded.
The emigration from Queenstown to
America for the week ending Sunday,
April Il. was Largest for a long time
and numbered no less than 1880 souls.
The total number for this and the three
weeks preceding it was 9,223O. Still
larger numbers are expected to follow.
The question of the liability of Lord
Bantry to pay rates for his tenants in
the Glengari1fe district was argued be-
fore Mr. Ferguson, @. c., at Skibbereen
quarter sessions, on April %, Mr..
NJ. Healy, Nj. F., appearing for the Ban
try Guardians, and Mr.. Downes and
MIR. Wright for the Earl of BAntrv.
Judgment was reserved. The grand
jury, with only two dissentients, passed
resolution condemning the introduce
tion Of coercion measures.
CLARE.
Information has reached LouQhrea
of several attacks made by Moonlight
ers on the night Of April 26. They COM
menced at the village of Ballyshea;
stones were thrown into several houses
and walls pulled down. Afterwards
they attacked the houses near Ardra-
hauff.
CAVAN.
On Sunday, April "a, very large
anti meeting meeting, was held
in Kilnalech. The Rev. John Boylan
presided, and resolutions were adopted
showing the injustice of coercion, and
affirming that nothing short of Home
Rule would satisfy the Irish people.
DUBLIN.
AT a meeting Of the Dublin, miIlers,
held On April 26, a resolution was
passed in favor of IS. duty Oh each bag
Of foreign flour imported from America.
The Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland at
tended a jubilee banquet given by Sir
William Stokes, President of the Royal
College OF Surgeons, in Dublin. the
night OF April q, and in response to the
toast OF his health, said as an Irishmau
he ventured hope that he could thor
ough]y sympathize with everything
Irish. He had mixed during his time
with all sorts and all classes of men,
and from all he had received such
welcome that he should eyer look to the
tjme he spent in Ireland with gratitude
and pleasure-gratitude from the kind
hess and welcome he had met from ali
and pleasure at the thought
that in those classes he had made
friends, whom he ventured to hope he
would never lose.
The Rev. Mathew Ryan was visited
i'll Kilmainham jail by his brother,
Jeremiah Ryan, Killduff, County Linn
erick. MIR. Ryan was accompanied by a
friend. The visitors found Father Ryan
i'll good health and spirits, but he was
sorry that his friends should haye been
by the exaggerated report OF
N>hat was nothing more serious than a
slight cold. He expressed hope that
the tenants on the o Grady estate would
not yield On the question of MI. Mo
roney's bankruptcy costs. AT parting
he presented I. copy of his photograph
to each Of bis visitors, but the governor
considered it his duty to detain the like
nesses as closely us the original himself.
Father Keller was also visited recently, |
and was found in excellent spirits.
DOWN.
Stephen McNamee and his wife, on
A pril %, at Newly, were committed for
rial to Armagh assizes, Oh the charge
IT the wi|ful murder Of Margaret Nc |
1eogh, who died on April 25 from the
effects OF blow from q spade, which |
split her skull.
FERMANAGH.
AN eviction has just been carried out
n the Derrygonnelly district which
proves clearly the wonderful anxiety OF |